Apparatus for feeding flux and solder



Filed April 10, 1946 July 11, 1950 E. A. SCHRYBER APPARATUS FOR FEEDING FLUX AND SOLDER f2 Sheets-Sheet 1 l dim-"Elli l lllll ll llllllllllllllllllll llllllllll E/V/Z r4. Sam-r555 INVE NTOR.

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APPARATUS FOR FEEDING FLUX AND SOLDER Filed April 10, 1946 I 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 V EN TOR.

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FLUX AND Extended surface Division of David E. Kennedy, Inc., Brooklyn, N. Y., a corporation of New York Application April 10, 1946, Serial No. 661,033

' 2 Claims. (01.113-59) The invention herein disclosed relates to the manufacture of finned tubing-particularly as disclosed in the E. F. Tilley Patent No. 2,251,642 of August 5, 1941, inwhich a slitted strip of fin material is wound helically upon a tube and secured by a soldering operation.

The present invention is concerned particularly with the soldering or tinning operations.

Special objects of the invention are to provide pumps for applying the flux and solder to the finned tubing, which will operate efficiently under the acid and heat conditions incidental to such operations and which, if required, may be quickly and easily removed and replaced.

Related objects are to so mount the pump mechanism that the individual pumps can be quickly and easily inspected, clear of the acid fiux and the solder which they handle.

Other objects are to provide pumping mechanism of simple, rugged construction which can be relied onto operate continuously through long extended periods and which withal will be of such a character as may be produced at reasonable costn Other desirable objects and the novel features by which the purposes of the invention are attained are set forth or will appear in the course of the following specification.

The drawings accompanying and forming part of the specification illustrate present practical embodiments of the invention. Structure, however, may be modified and changed as regards the immediate illustration, all within the true intent and broad scope of the invention as herein defined and claimed.

Figure 1 in the drawings is a broken cross sectional view of a tube finning machine incorporating features of the invention, this view being taken on a transverse plane across the soldering tank, substantially on the line l--l of Figure 2.

Figure 2 is a broken plan view of the apparatus.

Figure 3 is an enlarged broken vertical sectional view of the solder pump.

Figure 4 is a longitudinal vertical sectional View of the machine as on generally the plane of the line 4-4 of Figure 2.

Figures 5 and 6 are horizontal sectional views on substantially the planes of lines 55 and 6-6 of Figure 3.

Figure 7 is a vertical sectional detail on substantially the plane of line 1-1 of Figure 5, through the jet portion of the pump.

In Figures 1 and 4 the slitted fin strip is over a tank 13 containing shown, may be of substantially identical construction, consisting in I each instance of a rotor disc l6, Figure 3, having radial paddle blades I l on the under side extending inwardly from the rim of the disc to a point short of the center so as to leave an open.

center portion 18 in line with the central intake.

19 in the bottom of the pump casing Zll.

For the fiuxing pump I4, Figure 4, the bottom: plate 2| of the pump casing is just left with a. central opening 22 to provide the pump intake.

For the solder pump, however, an intake pipe: 23 is provided fixed in the opening 22 in the bottom plate and extending downward to near the bottom of the solder tank 13.

The pump casing in each instance is formed with a tangentially expanding discharge chamber 24 at the side of the rotor, at the larger end of which there is provided an upwardly inclined jet passage or nozzle 25.

The pump is supported in each instance by atubular column 26 rising from the top of the pump casing and provided in its upper and lower ends with bearings 21,28 for the rotor shaft 29.

The latter is shown as having a flange 36 fixedly secured thereto and bearing on top of the upper end of the column 26 to serve as a supporting thrust bearing for the shaft and rotor.

The upper end of the shaft is shown as formed with a coupling tang or key 31 detachably engaged in a companion socket or slot 32 in the lower end of a vertical drive shaft 33 and the column is shown as having a reduced portion 34 entered in a socket 35 and there adjustably and removably secured by a set screw 36.

Upon loosening this one set screw the entire pump unit can be vertically or angularly adjusted or be released and entirely removed from the supporting and driving portions of the mechanism.

Both pump units are shown carried by a, base plate 31 extending forwardly over the flux and solder tanks and pivotally supported at the rear by brackets 38, Figure 2, hing ing on the fixed bearings 39 in which the horizontal drive shaft 40 is journaled,

UNITED'VQSVTATES- PATENT OFFICE" l0 being wound upon the rotating and a tank. I 2, Figure 4, contanks spray the flux rotating and advancing base plate in this operative position. .r

Shaft 40 is shown as driving through bevel 1 gearing 4|, 42, forwardly projecting horizontal shafts 43, 44 journaled on base plate 31 and carrying at their forward ends bevel gears 45, 46

in mesh with companion gears 41,. 48 on the 5 upper ends of the vertical shafts 33 to which the pump spindles are directly coupled.

This construction enables the complete pump assembly, including both flux and. solder pumps to be lifted up and turned back clear of the flux and solder tanks by hinging the base plate up- Ii wardly around the swivel supports 39;

A post or column 49 is shown in Figures-:2 and 4 supporting the forward edge of the hinged base plate 31 with a clamp nut 58 on the top of this post for accurately and firmly securingth'e At times it may be desirable to throw one or the other or both pumps outoi operation. .Pari u rly o i the solderpumpl Accordingly in the machineillustrateda. clutch is provided on the horizontalgdriving shaft'43 of the solder pump; substantiallyas indicated at 5! Figures 1 and 2, which clutch can be ifi'imedi'ately thrown at anytimebwmeans of anupstanding conveniently located clutchjlever 52, Figuree i The pumps each have only a single operating. part; that is, the short bladed ,open centerlrotor and this, like the pump casing, is of simple, W rugged design, both ,capa'ble of standing the ac- 7. tion of the .fluxand hot solder.

The pumps are easil setat the proper angle to deliver the streams'or geysersof fiux'and solderfontothe fins of the tubing passing .overhead,'in the general relation shown in Figure-1. On releasingthe, setscrewjfi the entire pump? unitmay be .droppedf and removed-for insp r pairer su stitution of another pump. unit.' The operating parts of the pump may be made ofgaoid and heatres istantrmetals ,or other 4 materials. V

Thehinge mounting oi'u'i base plate 31 en'-' ables the whole pump, mechanism to be lifted out of and clear of the tanksor if desirable, set v at difierent levels inrespect to theQtanks What is claimed is; V

1. Apparatus for manufacturing finned tubing. comprising pumpsfor flux and solder, said pumps 1 including. bladed rotors v,operating. on, upright axes and open at the bottom, pump casings enclosing said rotors and open at the bottom beoer neath the open center rotors, said pump casings having upwardly directed jet nozzles in the top of the same, means for passing finned tubing successively over said upwardly directed jet nozzles/10f said flux and sol'derpumps, acommon supporting base for said pumps, a hinge mounting for said base and drive gearing for both "pum s including a common drive shaft journaled concentrically 'wi-th 'the hinge axis of said common 'supporting base.

2.--Apparatus for manufacturing finned tubing comprising flux and solder tanks in adjoining ielationga baSe hinged at one side of said tanks and extend ing -inl'owered position over the top of thesame flux- -and solder pumps dependent from said hinged base into'said flux and solder tanks, respectively, and arranged to be lifted upwardly out of said tanks by the hinging upward ot-said "base,i'driv'ei'conrfectins' for opera-" ting'said'pumps' extending from thehi'ng'e aids" f of saidbase to said pumps'a'nd thereby arranged to permit the" upward lifting "movement of "the base and pumps supported threbyjsaid pumpshaving upwardly directed iiux and solder do livering nozzles and means fortran's'porting'tubing being finned over the tops ofsaid tanks within the delivery range ofsaid flux and solder pump nozzles.

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